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Crocodylus affinis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Reptilia

Superfamily
  
Crocodyloidea

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Crocodilia

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Megadontosuchus, Ischyrochampsa, Harpacochampsa, Massaliasuchus

"Crocodylus" affinis is an extinct species of crocodyloid from the Eocene of Wyoming. Fossils were first described from the Bridger Formation by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1871. Marsh described the species, along with every other species of crocodyloid in the Bridger Formation, under the genus Crocodylus. Recent phylogenetic studies of crocodyloids show that "C." affinis is not a species of Crocodylus, but a genus has not yet been erected to include the species. Other Bridger species such as Crocodylus clavis and Brachyuranochampsa zangerli have been synonymized with "C." affinis.

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Crocodylus affinis Wikipedia